English → Arabic
English to Arabic, built by pivoting Princeton WordNet 3.0 through the Arabic WordNet and enriching with the English Wiktionary. Includes an inflection index.
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en-ar.zip 12.3 MB · StarDict · CC-BY-SA-4.0
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Unzip and copy the folder onto your device so that you end up with:
koreader/data/dict/en-ar/en-ar.ifo
Restart KOReader. This dictionary includes an inflection index, so looking a word up exactly as it appears in a book works.
Coverage
How many of the most common words in the source language this dictionary can actually resolve, counting words reached through the inflection index.
| Frequency band | Found | As headword | Via inflection | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| top 1,000 | 980 | 892 | 88 | 98% |
| top 5,000 | 4,805 | 4,037 | 768 | 96.1% |
| top 10,000 | 9,297 | 7,428 | 1,869 | 92.97% |
| top 50,000 | 37,726 | 26,780 | 10,946 | 75.45% |
Measured against OpenSubtitles 2018 English top 50k (hermitdave/FrequencyWords).
What is in an entry
| Entries with a real translation | 32,455 (20.85%) |
| Entries with only a definition, no translation | 123,169 |
| Entries with a usage example | 34,201 (21.98%) |
| Entries with inflected forms | 153,424 (98.59%) |
| Entries with pronunciation | 16,129 |
| Senses | 233,571 |
| Mean definition length | 63.8 characters |
| Mean translations per entry | 0.64 |
An entry counted as “definition only” is one where the source wordnet knows the concept but has no word for it in the target language. These are shipped because a definition still helps a reader, and counted separately because calling them translations would be dishonest.
Sources and licence
| Source | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|
omw-arb | CC-BY-SA-3.0 | Arabic WordNet (AWN v2), via Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.4 |
pwn30 | WordNet-3.0 | Princeton University WordNet 3.0 |
wikt-en-ar | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (wiktextract) |
Bundled under CC-BY-SA-4.0, the least restrictive licence that covers every source above. Each source’s own terms are reproduced in the ATTRIBUTION file inside the download.